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Perth Scorchers have received mixed news on their injury front, with David Willey considered a chance to tackle Sydney Thunder on Thursday night, but Sam Whiteman likely to miss the rest of the regular season.

Willey was sidelined from Friday night’s loss to Hobart Hurricanes with a shoulder injury, but has shown rapid improvement.

Whiteman wasn’t as fortunate. His right quad injury, sustained while scoring 68 from 44 balls against Hobart, will keep him out of action for two to three weeks. Perth’s final game is against Adelaide on February 9.

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Will Pucovski will make his debut for Australia when the first test begins against Sri Lanka on Thursday.

Will Pucovski will make his debut for Australia when the first test begins against Sri Lanka on Thursday.

Shaun Marsh and Mitch Marsh will return from inter-national duties this week and coach Adam Voges is hopeful Jason Behrendorff (back) will be available. Jhye Richardson was set to join them before being called up to the Test squad.

The Scorchers fell to the bottom of the ladder after losing to the Hurricanes.

Voges said losing clumps of wickets throughout the innings was costly, but he still took positives from the batting display.

“When you lose by such a small margin, you look back on a lot of things during the game,” he said.